Viewing profile — NeoBasilisk

Yep, anyone that started investing in 2012 or later is about to learn the true meaning of "Past performance is no guarantee of future results."

At some point, I hope we can get past this argument. Learning a new language for rudimentary tasks is not particularly hard. I'm not sure why people decided that JavaScript of all …

RIP progressive enhancement

>It's easy to forget, but for years after its introduction JavaScript didn't work well. I haven't forgotten, and I will never forget.

Yeah, I used to walk to school when I was 7. It was only about 4 blocks away, and my mom told me to never deviate from the route she laid out for me, but it wasn't a bit deal.

Ok, I read 5 years ago that microservices are the future and that monoliths are dead. I'm glad we're making progress.

The article count would actually be much higher if they weren't diligent about deleting or merging articles that they don't find notable.

I'm working on migrating a 10+ year old site into a new environment right now. The technical debt is crushing.

You don't think it would be embarrassing to be standing at a whiteboard at work and be unable to spell basic words?

I feel like there's a good joke about an atheistic (and formerly Communist) country producing Bibles for a more religious country as they beat them at their own game of capitalism,…

I would be very careful in trying to attribute something as complex as corporate structures to human nature. We have seen massive changes in all parts of society throughout the las…

The game was insanely popular for the few weeks immediately following launch in 2016. It is entirely possible that Clash had more players, but they weren't all outside walking arou…

cool maybe I'll start answering my phone again someday

Don't employee surveys factor heavily into these evaluations?

It's probably because the implementation of the algorithm is the simplest, because you don't need to modify the existing data structure. You don't need to merge or create new array…

Calling it a "flaw" is probably going too far. It is a simple acknowledgement that if your physical traits or abilities diverge significantly from what is average, then your qualit…

¥300 were deposited in your account for this post.

Things can matter to you, but they are not things that objectively matter.

god I hope this is satire I'm about 70-30 on it being satire

Git succeeded in spite of its CLI, not because of it.

I dunno man. I think 7 billion people might be enough.

Sure, but venting and taking collective action in ways that will almost certainly hurt the company's bottom line are kind of different things.

It's going to be entertaining this year if nothing else.

This is why I will never call myself a software engineer, despite having a master's degree with a specialization in "software engineering." It's kind of an insult to actual enginee…